“All good artwork, deep down, revolves across the similar factor: taking the completely distinctive, the completely particular, and making it common. Uniting the actual with the common by way of expressing it artistically: not eliminating its specificity however emphasizing this specificity, letting what’s overseas and unfamiliar shine clearly via. Conflict and artwork are opposites, simply as battle and peace are opposites—it’s so simple as that. Artwork is peace.”
Jon Fosse, Worldwide Message Creator

“It is a tough time for the world. Violence, poverty, starvation, battle, fueled by the lies that assist such actions. We artists should stand in reality, each our personal, but additionally in yours. In La Kech. Tu eres mi otro yo. You’re the different me.”
Luis Alfaro, U.S. Message Creator

“We’re writing new worlds
With our our bodies and our phrases
Constructing cultures of care
On a funds
Crafting cardboard castles
Making the perfect of plastic chairs
We’re (re)storying the longer term.”
Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, U.S. Emergent Artist Creator

WORLDWIDE: The World Theater Initiative (GTI), a partnership between Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and the Laboratory for World Efficiency and Politics (The Lab) at Georgetown College, invitations all theatres, particular person artists, establishments, and audiences to have fun the 62nd annual World Theatre Day, right this moment, March 27. Annually, a famend theatre artist of world stature is invited by the Worldwide Theatre Institute (ITI) Worldwide to craft a global message marking the worldwide event. This 12 months the Worldwide message is given by Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, who not too long ago gained the Nobel Prize for Literature. The U.S. World Theatre Day message is given by efficiency artist, author, theatre director, and social activist Luis Alfaro; a video of his tackle could be discovered right here. For the third time ever, GTI invited a U.S. Emergent Artist to pen the message, which this 12 months is given by actor, director, and producer Caitlin Nasema Cassidy and could be discovered right here. The messages have been translated into a number of languages.

“TCG is proud to collaboratively function the U.S. Heart of the Worldwide Theatre Institute with our companions, the Laboratory for World Efficiency and Politics,” mentioned LaTeshia Ellerson, interim chief development officer, TCG, in a press release. “At a time of rising worldwide battle and a world refugee disaster, the ability of theatre to humanize and forge solidarity throughout borders is deeply necessary. We hope theatre staff will share these addresses extensively and be a part of us in celebrating World Theatre Day!”

“In these addresses, the artists articulate the ability of theatre to each witness the ache of a world at battle but additionally remodel it,” mentioned Karena Fiorenza, interim chief government officer, TCG, in a press release. “That transformation comes from theatre’s energy to embody the Mayan custom Luis Alfaro names of In La Kech—tu eres mi otro yo. Caitlin Nasema Cassidy extends that connection to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, now extinct, and all our more-than-human kin. We hope that theatre folks throughout the globe will learn these addresses and really feel a renewed vitality for his or her important work.”

Since 1962, World Theatre Day has been celebrated by the circulation of the World Theatre Day Message. The primary World Theatre Day worldwide message was written by Jean Cocteau. Succeeding honorees have included Arthur Miller (1963), Ellen Stewart (1975), Vaclav Havel (1994), Ariane Mnouchkine (2005), Sultan bin Mohammad Al Qasimi (2007), Augusto Boal (2009), Dame Judi Dench (2010), Jessica A. Kaahwa (2011), and Anatoli Vassiliev (2016). In 2023, the Worldwide World Theatre Message was given by Samiha Ayoub; Martyna Majok gave the U.S. World Theatre Message and Devika Ranjan gave the U.S. Emergent Artist Creator Message. 

To have fun World Theatre Day 2024, GTI recommends sharing the worldwide and U.S. messages on or round March 27 via on-line media; tweet about World Theatre Day utilizing the hashtag #WorldTheatreDay; following TCG, The Lab, The World Theater Initiative, and ITI on social media platforms for updates and sharing World Theatre Day-related posts; and posting your individual message to your community about World Theatre Day, championing the ability of theatre to strengthen cultural change and mutual understanding throughout borders. Social handles for GTI: Fb; for TCG: Fb,  Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn; for The Lab: Fb, Twitter, Instagram.

Jon Fosse is a famend Norwegian author born in 1959, identified for an in depth physique of labor, together with performs, novels, poetry collections, essays, youngsters’s books, and translations, for which he gained the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Luis Alfaro is a Chicano playwright born and raised in downtown Los Angeles. He served as affiliate inventive director of Heart Theatre Group on the Music Heart of Los Angeles County (2021-2022), and is the one playwright within the historical past of the Kennedy Heart to have obtained two “Fund for New American Play” awards in the identical 12 months. He’s additionally an affiliate professor on the College of Southern California, the place he directs of the MFA in Dramatic Writing program. 

Caitlin Nasema Cassidy is an actor, director, and producer making experimental efficiency that’s bodily, collaborative, and poetic. Her follow is rooted in pleasure, embodied analysis, and (com)post-activism. Theatre consists of The Vagrant Trilogy on the Public Theater, the world premiere of Paradise at Central Sq. Theatre, Pay No Consideration to the Lady with Goal Margin, and Ferry Tales on the John F. Kennedy Heart. 

The World Theater Initiative (GTI) was launched in February 2016 by Theatre Communications Group, the writer of American Theatre, and the Laboratory for World Efficiency and Politics (the Lab), primarily based in Washington, D.C. at Georgetown College. Devoted to humanizing world affairs via theatre, the World Theatre Initiative (GTI) fosters interconnectedness amongst theatremakers worldwide in pursuit of a simply and thriving international theatre ecology.

Worldwide Theatre Institute (ITI) was shaped in 1948, when the United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO) joined with world-renowned theatre specialists to kind a global non-governmental group within the area of the performing arts. The mission of ITI is to “promote worldwide change of data and follow in theatre arts so as to consolidate peace and friendship between peoples, to deepen mutual understanding and to extend artistic cooperation between all folks within the theatre arts.”

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